Hello All
It is only after getting to look around the tilers forum that i have been able to see previous details on Tradeskills4U.
Having not so long ago completed a couple of weeks training i feel that i am in a pretty good position to give my own (personal) opinion on what did or did not happen.
At the end of the course i left a feedback sheet that i had completed stating that i thought the training was good and it is only a little while after that i believe you really get to analyse an experience.
Now, although the primary instructor for the tiling is a great guy and clearly knows his stuff there are some areas of concern that have been left on me now that my training has finished.
I saw a comment from someone that described the training as being basic. I would have to agree with this comment and go further to describe it as repetitive and limited in scope.
Despite spending 2 weeks at the centre i was only shown how to deal with ceramic tiles, except a brief (no more than 5mins) practice at cutting off-cuts of natural stone.
The basic layout's expected with ceramic tiles were completed within a bay and then the same on a window, a splashback and finally a shower unit.
This included some element of diagonal pattern.
I have since seen on other sites with other training providers that despite their courses being shorter there is an element of border work, pattern settin etc. I feel cheated on this account and thoroughly dissapointed. By the end of week 2 i was having to find the trainer and ask what i could do now, and i was in turn asked 'what would you like to do?'
I came in to th etraining centre daily armed with questions about things that i felt had been missed after looking through the forum. None of this was baffling stuff and i am certainly not a 'smart-ass' or anything. An example of this being after me completing a shower unit, i discovered myself on here about waterproofing etc. I then raised it with the trainer and it was then explained to me.
There was no pro-activeness of any sort.
By the end of the course there were people on week 1, people on week 2 and people on week 3 all together being shown the same thing. There may well have been but i got the impression that there was no solid structure to the teaching.
That said, the staff were approachable and helped whenever requested.
I do feel dissapointed and cheated and i shall be spending more money to attend another centre that i have seen clearly by posts can provide this in a shorter time..... I will be heading to the land of 'South Shields' i think......
I know that some may say that i should have looked about some more, and i would like to say that i did indeed look about and i even heard good reviews about the place.
Ah well, live and learn!!
